Quotes About Avoidance

The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada.

I'll just stay ten feet away from him at all times so I don't accidentally trip and fall and land lips first on his mouth.

Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it's too crowded.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

Justification of failure is the most powerful mechanism adopted by the mind to avoid the reflection of Self Failure

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"--too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?Too afraid to give up . . . control.

It's not that I don't care," said Robin. "It's just that I don't want to know." She knew too much already. This was real life, kicking her in the face, and she wanted nothing to do with it.

It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

I'd been thinking of luck as 'things I wanted to happen', but luck was also 'preventing things I didn't want to happen'" - Emma

I love running. I'm not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

It's like a relationship: Breaking one up is hard to do, but staying in it just because you're too chicken to drop the ax is even worse. Deal with the brief discomfort of confrontation up front and avoid the long-term regret.

Why is it so difficult to decide whether to avoid or to confront? Because at some level we know the truth: If we try to avoid the problem, we'll feel taken advantage of, our feelings will fester, we'll wonder why we don't stick up for ourselves, and we'll rob the other person of the opportunity to improve things.

You can't lose a battle you never fight. - Revan

I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.